{"id":353453,"date":"2026-03-23T07:04:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T07:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/353453\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T07:04:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T07:04:19","slug":"nasas-artemis-ii-rocket-arrives-at-launch-pad-39b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/353453\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Artemis II Rocket\u00a0Arrives at\u00a0Launch Pad\u00a039B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At\u00a011:21\u00a0a.m.\u00a0EDT\u00a0on\u00a0Friday,\u00a0March 20, NASA\u2019s Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft arrived at\u00a0Launch Pad 39B after an\u00a011-hour journey from the Vehicle Assembly Building at the agency\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s crawler-transporter 2 began its\u202f4-mile trek with the integrated SLS and Orion stacked on top\u00a0of the mobile launcher at 12:20\u00a0a.m. EDT. Moving at a maximum speed of just\u202f0.82 mph, the crawler carried the\u00a0322-foot-tall\u00a0Moon rocket and spacecraft slowly\u00a0and steadily\u00a0toward the pad.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now that the rocket is at Pad 39B, NASA teams are gearing up for the final stretch of prelaunch preparations ahead of\u00a0launch\u00a0as\u00a0soon\u00a0as Wednesday, April 1.\u00a0The early April\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/artemis-ii-mission-availability.pdf?emrc=69c0e5f238957\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">launch window<\/a>\u00a0includes opportunities through Monday, April 6.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Artemis II\u00a0Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialist Christina Koch of NASA, along with CSA\u2019s (Canadian Space Agency) Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen\u00a0will embark on a 10-day journey around the Moon and back.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As part of a Golden Age of innovation and exploration, Artemis II is another step toward new U.S.-crewed missions to the Moon\u2019s surface, leading to a sustained presence on the Moon that will help the agency prepare to send astronauts to Mars.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/JASON-COSTA_avatar_1659036634-300x300.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>March 20, 2026 11:28AM<\/p>\n<p>More from Missions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At\u00a011:21\u00a0a.m.\u00a0EDT\u00a0on\u00a0Friday,\u00a0March 20, NASA\u2019s Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft arrived at\u00a0Launch Pad 39B after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[6353,6552,111197,20920,86184,111198,85,46,6355,9142,141,145,9143,111199],"class_list":["post-353453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-artemis","tag-artemis-2","tag-christina-h-koch","tag-exploration-ground-systems","tag-exploration-systems-development-mission-directorate","tag-g-reid-wiseman","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-kennedy-space-center","tag-orion-multi-purpose-crew-vehicle","tag-science","tag-space","tag-space-launch-system-sls","tag-victor-j-glover"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}